Articles by Regional Reporter, Appalachia Katie Myers
Katie Myers reports on climate in Appalachia through a partnership between BPR and Grist. She previously served as a climate solutions fellow at Grist. She also reported with the Ohio Valley ReSource and WMMT 88.7 FM in Whitesburg, Kentucky. Her freelance work has appeared in the BBC, NPR, Belt Magazine, and Scalawag Magazine, among others.
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![A factory worker on a General Motors assembly line plugs a charging cord into a Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicle.]()
![A factory worker on a General Motors assembly line plugs a charging cord into a Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicle.]()
GM agreed to unionize its EV operations. Will others do the same?
With United Auto Workers still on strike, the concession could lead to better pay and benefits across the auto industry.
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California enacts far-reaching climate disclosure laws
New laws passed this weekend tackle carbon offsets, corporate emissions, and clean energy.
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The surprising biodiversity of abandoned coal mines
“We’re increasingly finding that it’s not true that these are just ecological voids where nothing is living there.”
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![An electrician uncrates a heat pump system that is about to be installed behind a white house.]()
![An electrician uncrates a heat pump system that is about to be installed behind a white house.]()
A group of US governors promises to install 20 million heat pumps by 2030
And they want to put at least 40 percent of them in disadvantaged communities.
